Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

COLORADO SPRINGS — A local Russian language group in Colorado Springs gathers every Saturday at a library in northern Colorado Springs to practice their Russian and learn more about Russian culture.

Forest Park High School students earned 31 medals at the 2026 Olympiada of Spoken Russian, a statewide language competition.

Many Ukraine citizens speak Russian as their first language. Volunteer organizations are helping them improve their Ukrainian and abandon “the occupiers’ language.” By Erika Solomon LVIV, Ukraine — ...